October 4, 1990
12:00 AM (EDT)

News Release Number: STScI-1990-15

R Aquarii - A Nearby Exploding Star

October 4, 1990: NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has peered into the inner core of the nearby so-called "symbiotic star", R Aquarii, to reveal dramatic new details of the exploding star. The observations were made with the European Space Agency's Faint Object Camera.